Friday, May 9, 2008

Q6. Why are there so many books, movies, documentaries, etc. about the Holocaust? Why do we keep retelling this story?

I think there are so many books, movies, documentaries about the Holocaust because it’s something that should be never forgotten later in life. As the years go by, the holocaust stays in the past and soon no ones going to know about it. And what if this kind of event happens again? The holocaust is an event that should never repeat. All though many people think history repeats itself, this is one event that shouldn’t. The holocaust can be compared to prejudice that is still happening around the world. When you make assumptions of somebody that you don’t know, that’s being prejudice, and if you act upon those thoughts of prejudice, that person, is victimized. Like Hitler, when he made those assumptions of the Jews, he killed them, yet even if you’re not killing them physically, inside, you are destroying them by all the mean things that you say.
Also books and movies and documentaries are made so that people will have a better idea on what the Jews had gone through. By reading and watching books and documentaries, it makes us go in to the victim’s shoes and understand what really felt like to lose hope and go in despair
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